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The Gift That Can Give You More Sales
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
Free Shipping Day falls on December 16 this year. If you want your store to be part of this holiday shopping event, or to offer free shipping for a longer period of time as a holiday promotion, chances are that you’ve already been planning for a while. If you haven’t been, it’s time to start.
If you haven’t heard of Free Shipping Day before, it’s the day on which thousands of online stores offer free shipping with delivery by Christmas Eve. FreeShippingDay.com estimates that this year, more than 2,000 merchants will take part in the event. According to comScore, online shoppers spent $942 million on Free Shipping Day in 2010, up from $586 million on Free Shipping Day in 2009. Of the top shopping days in 2010, comScore reports that Free Shipping Day was behind only Cyber Monday and Green Monday, two other days that you may want to plan free shipping [...]
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New Feature: Saved Cards for Customer Registration
Monday, August 29th, 2011
A few weeks back, a pre-announcement about the new Saved Cards feature for Customer Registration appeared here on the Yahoo! Store Blog. I’m happy to let you know that as of early this morning, Saved Cards is available for all Merchant Solutions and Yahoo! Store accounts.
In order to use Saved Cards, our Customer Registration system must be enabled for your store.
Note: If you have not published your Order Settings since the end of June, you may see an active Publish Order Settings link in Store Manager due to work performed in order to release Saved Cards. Unless you are enabling Saved Cards or have made your own updates, no changes requiring an Order Settings publish have been made [...]
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Countdown to the Summit: Becoming a Data-Driven Company
Friday, August 5th, 2011
Today’s Yahoo! Store Blog post comes from Scott Smigler, President of Exclusive Concepts, Inc., a leading resource for Yahoo! stores seeking to accelerate their revenue without the overhead. For the third year in a row, Exclusive Concepts is a Patron Sponsor of the 2011 Yahoo! Merchant Summit being held August 9 and 10 in Santa Clara, CA.
When I started Exclusive Concepts 14 years ago, ecommerce was nothing like it is today. Competition among online retailers was low, and building a highly successful store was easy. In fact, simply choosing the right domain name was enough to make a store a big success. Search engines prioritized web sites that had the right keywords in their domain names, and popular search directories were easy to game as well.
It was a fun time to be in ecommerce, but you all know what happened next: things changed [...]
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Countdown to the Summit: Get Ecommerce Tips from an Expert
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
Today’s Yahoo! Store Blog post comes from American Express OPEN®, the leading payment card issuer for small businesses in the US. American Express OPEN is the Premier Sponsor of the 2011 Yahoo! Merchant Summit being held August 9 and 10 in Santa Clara, CA.
We’re just a week away from the Yahoo! Merchant Summit, and we know that those of you attending the Summit are looking forward to getting the most out of your two days there. If you’ve had a look at the agenda, then you know that there’s no shortage of great tips and experiences to learn from fellow merchants to help you improve your online business.
One such expert, John Lawson, will provide a keynote on a topic that’s crucial to any retailer [...]
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